Joanna Foster
@fabtic_ltd
Head of fabtic, working with children, young people and practitioners. Author of 'Children and Teenagers Who Set Fires'. Proud to be Valleys Welsh in England.
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Umoja, Kenya, a women-only village, created for females to escape male/patriarchal violence was photographed by Georgina Goodwin #WomensArt
ââŠyou've adopted an arms length relationshipâŠyou have allowed a once great institution to be asset-stripped by little more than thugs in suits.
And you've enabled them to carry on with impunity, regardless of the human misery and suffering they've caused.â
#PostOfficeScandal
Returning to supervision after a break allows me to see with fresh eyes just how tired frontline practitioners are
Fighting systems that tell them theyâre too loud, too difficult and care too much when speaking out
Instead I suggest they are âhopeful disruptorsâ ~ Dr Karen Treisman, MBE, Clinical Psychologist
âTo be alive at all is to have scars.â -
John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent, 1961.
#ThursdayThoughts
Amazing to feel connected to #nature and Professor Benjamin Zephaniah through planting a pear tree in the new Benjamin Zephaniah wood, #Spalding
I chose pear because these trees used to grow in my grandparentsâ garden in South #Wales
Delighted to learn pear was Benjaminâs favourite
#RoleModels
âI get my strength from knowledge.
Knowledge is power, they say.
But knowledge of self is even more powerful.
Because if you don't know yourself,
Nobody else really can
And nobody else really will.â
~ Benjamin Zephaniah
#SelfCareSunday
The greatest gift of Easter is #hope
Although Iâm definitely not complaining about my present of hot cross buns from Welch Bakes bakery, #StNeots
#EasterSunday
#Grateful
#ShopLocal
UK Artist Prudence Staite created a playable chocolate record which worked just like a vinyl record, and played 'You Sexy Thing' by the band Hot Chocolate #WomensArt
'It isn't Jesus, it's just a fellaâ
No better film classic on this rainy #GoodFriday afternoon than âWhistle Down the Windâ